A.J.'s POVThere was one image that caught my attention immediately, and disturbed me to the point where for a second, I thought my knees would give out. Reneesme showed me a memory of her family and another rather large coven facing each other in the middle of field. I suddenly knew everyone's name as if I had always known, and shivered at one name in particular. Aro. He smiled greedily, reaching towards Reneesme. The image made me shiver, and reminded me of something a certain vampire, had once said to me.
Flashback:
I was walking up my driveway, getting my keys out of my bag. My parents weren't supposed to be home today, so when I passed by a window and saw a shadow of someone sitting at my kitchen table, I was confused. I pulled out my keys, opened my door and turned to look towards the kitchen. I froze staring at someone, who's face haunted me in every nightmare I had since Kyle had died, a month ago.
It's him, I thought freaking out. The vampire that killed Kyle was now sitting at my kitchen the table. I stood frozen in my front doorway, what am I going to do? I thought frantically. But just then he saw me and smiled, not an evil one though, a sympathetic one. I decided I couldn't outrun him, so when he motioned to the chair across from him I walked inside, threw my bag next to the seat and sat down. I waited for him to either start talking, or kill me, I preferred the first and lucky for me, that's exactly what happened.
"I'm so sorry, I never should have listened to Aro" he started, and then sighed when he saw my confused look. "Let me start by saying my name is Cole. I am part of the Volturi guard, who are a group of very greedy vampires, who are the closest thing to vampire royalty. All they want is power" he looked disgusted when he talked to the Volturi "Since they heard of a prophecy saying that you would one day be the deciding factor of something very important, a possible defeat, Aro told me that my choice was either kill you, or my own death" he sighed again but this time it was as if he were being relieved of a heavy weight on his conscience "I'm picking death, because I know its what I should have done in the first place" he said standing up.
I was shocked, to say the least. "So you are going to die to save me" I asked slowly, but it came out more like a statement.
He nodded and smiled weakly, "I hope someday you will be able to forgive me" he said quietly, turning towards the door to leave "But, mark my words" he said, his voice grave and laced with caution "Aro will find you, and he always gets what he wants" and with that Cole was gone.
Flashback endsI shivered. I never had completely forgiven Cole, and no one knew I had even seen him after the night Kyle was killed. Just because I never told anyone, didn't mean I had forgotten that day. His words replay in my head everytime I hear a noise in the middle of the night and shoot up in bed. I didn't want to think about it right now though, so I pushed the memory to the back of my brain.
I smiled towards Jacob and Seth "Reneesme has shown me so much about you" I said smiling "You werewolves are pretty interesting I must say, although imprinting on a baby seems a little bit odd, Jacob"
"I had no control over that" he said trying to defend himself, but saw that I was joking " but, umm thank you I think..." he trailed off realizing he didn't know whether I was insulting him by saying werewolves were interesting, or if I was complimenting him.
"Your very welcome" I said smiling. I saw him look towards Reneesme and smile. I looked down and realized she was sleeping. I couldn't help yawning when I looked at the small dreaming child. Then, sleepiness hit me with about as much force as an 18-wheeler, so I yawned a few more times.
"I think our meeting should come to an end, seeing as our guest is getting quite sleepy" Esme said smiling.
I smiled back "Thank you"
Rosalie stood up "You are going to stay in the other guest room on the third floor across from Jasper, I'm sure he wouldn't mind showing you where it is" she said to me smiling.
"That's perfect" I replied handing Reneesme to Bella and yawning again.
Jasper turned to me and gave me his crooked smirk and I swear my heart melted. I quickly regained composure though.
"Goodnight everyone" I said as I left the room.
I followed Jasper up the two flights of stairs, and down a long hallway until he came to a stop in front of a room.
"This is your room" he said letting me brush past him "I hope you like it" he said smiling timidly.
I walked in and my jaw almost hit the floor. It was beautiful, and perfect size for just one person. It had light blue walls, with cherry oak furniture. There was a queen size bed up against one wall, and two bookshelves of books along the adjacent wall.
"Like it?" I said amazed "I love it"
Jasper smiled widely, "I'm glad you like- I mean love it" he chuckled.
I smiled and turned towards the bed and saw my stuff was already there, but my mind was now focusing on the bookshelves. I walked over to one of them and started reading the titles to myself aloud. It took me awhile, but I found the perfect book and pulled it down. I opened it and started to read, turning around to go sit on my bed when I noticed Jasper was still leaning against the doorframe of my room, smiling.
"I'm sorry," I said quickly blushing "I almost forgot you were there"
He just smiled "It's ok" he said I as set the book down on my bed. I looked at the clock on the nightstand. It read one a.m. and I yawned, just thinking about how late it was.
I looked back at the door and realized Jasper was gone. I shrugged my shoulders; he must have gone back to his room I thought to myself. I quickly grabbed a pair of shorts and tank top from my bag, and walked down the hall and into the bathroom to get changed. While I was in bathroom I looked at myself in the mirror. I pulled my hair into a ponytail, gathered my clothes off the floor, and headed for my room.
When I got back to my room I was surprised to find Jasper sitting on my bed, reading the book I had picked out. I felt myself smile. Wow he's gorgeous, he reads, and he's sitting on my bed, what more can a girl ask for? I thought to myself before shaking my head as if the thought would disperse. I dropped my clothes and bag on the floor and lightly tapped him on the shoulder. He jerked his head up quickly and smiled. He had a look like he knew what I had been thinking.
I blushed, glad that he would probably never know and sat down next to him.
I yawned again before asking "Jasper, do you want to take the book to your room?" I laughed "because I can barely keep my eyes open and it looks like your pretty into it" I paused and raised an eyebrow, "unless you plan on staying in here tonight"
He looked shocked and then laughed realizing I had been joking, "I'm leaving" he said laughing, "I just wanted to say goodnight" he gave me one of his crooked smiles. He grabbed the book and walked across the hall. I smiled as I watched him leave, and was asleep within moments.
Jasper's POV
I heard her mumbling something about the beach in the other room, and realized she must have fallen asleep just a few minutes after I had left, and was now dreaming. I smiled, when I thought about her being in the room right across from me.
"I understand what Steven meant when he told her that her dad hired him to hit all the guys with a baseball bat if they even looked at her" I thought, laughing to myself "That bat must be pretty dented, cause she's beautiful, even when she's practically sleep walking."
"Stop
Jasper you can't think like that"
I mentally yelled at myself "She
is a HUMAN". But, I
knew I had feelings for A.J., although I knew I wasn't supposed to.
"What's the use in denying it?" I said sighing.
"She's human" I thought to myself flopping down onto my bed, "everyone is going to say it's dangerous for her to be around me". That was when I realized after spending this whole night with her, I wasn't even hungry. Her blood smelled delicious, but I had no part of me that wanted to drink it. I was smiling quite pleased with myself, when I heard Edward coming over the stairs.
Within a second, he was in my room. I sat up on my bed and he appeared in the doorway. He looked at me worriedly. I looked back at him totally calm.
"What's up Ed?" I asked smiling.
"You know exactly 'what's up' Jasper" he said eyeing me warily.
I looked at him confused, trying to figure out what he was talking about. "What are you talking about?" I whispered harshly while getting up to shut the door, hoping we wouldn't wake up A.J.
Edward gave me a worried look "Jasper it's too dangerous" he muttered as if what he was saying hurt him "You can't like her" he mumbled.
I sat down on one of my favorite chairs and my shoulders slumped as I sighed. "But I didn't mean for it to happen. It just happened." I said quietly.
"I know" he said sadly.
I gave him a pleading look "Edward, I don't know how to stop liking her, I look at her and I can't help but smile, it's like my heart is actually beating again"
"I know" Edward said understandingly "But your self control isn't..." he trailed off without finishing, instantly regretting saying anything about it.
"I don't want to drink her blood" I said quickly "I've spent the whole night with her and I'm not at all hungry, and even though her blood smells delicious, I don't want to drink it" I said praying he would believe me.
"But still..." Edward said as though he was delivering a message he really didn't want to "she is Steven's best friend, and you saw how everyone reacted to Emmett mentioning her as a vampire earlier?" he said stressing as a vampire, as if it were a disease. Come to think of it, it's worse than a disease.
I looked shocked, I hadn't even thought of that "I had no plans of turning her" I said quietly, then adding quickly "This conversation doesn't even matter, because I don't think she sees me as anything more than her best friend's brother, maybe if I'm lucky she sees me as a friend" I sighed.
Edward gave me a small smile, "Don't worry Jasper, you will find someone else" he said patting my shoulder as he left.
I smiled weakly at him as he left. "What am I thinking, falling for a HUMAN girl I just met". I went over and lay down on my bed, closing my eyes, sorting through the swirl of emotions in my head. All I knew for certain was I didn't want anyone else; I wanted to be with A.J.
